In 1959, nine experienced Russian cross-country skiers — seven men and two women, led by a man named Igor Dyatlov — headed to the Ural Mountains,
to a slope called Kholat Syakhl (Mansi language for "Mountain of the Dead," ahem) for a rugged, wintry trek. On their way up, they are apparently
hit by inclement weather and veer off course and decide to set up camp and wait it out. All is calm. All is fine and good. They even take pictures of
camp, the scenery, each other. The weather is not so bad. They go to sleep.
Then, something happens. In the middle of the night all nine suddenly leap out of their tents as fast as possible, ripping them open from the inside
(not even enough time to untie the doors) and race out into the sub-zero temps, without coats or boots or skis, most in their underwear, some even
barefoot or with a single sock or boot. It is 30 degrees below zero, Celsius. A few make it as far as a kilometer and a half down the slope. All nine,
as you might expect, quickly die.
And so it begins.
Why did they rush out, unable to even grab a coat or blanket? What came at them? The three-month investigation revealed that five of the trekkers died
from simple hypothermia, with no apparent trauma at all, no signs of attack, struggle, no outward injuries of any kind. However, two of the other four
apparently suffered massive internal traumas to the chest, like you would if you were hit by a car. One's skull was crushed. All four of these were
found far from the other five. But still, no signs of external injuries.
Not good enough? How about this: One of the women was missing her tongue.
Oh, it gets better. And weirder.
Tests of the few scraps of clothing revealed very high levels of radiation.
Any information on how this story came about, facts or a source would be appreciated.
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I was reading about this just last week. Not much info out there unfortunately other than what's on Wiki 
Dyatlov Pass Incident
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I suppose it is possible that they were attacked by wild animals. Bears perhaps. The radiation on some of their clothes might be as a result from
exposure to a natural source. Just a thought. Tis very very fishy though.
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 Why did they camp on the mountainside when they could have hiked 1.5 kilometres down into the shelter of the woods? The overconfidence of youth?
Possibly the beginning stages of hypothermia were setting in and their judgement was already impaired?
This explains the panicked flight and undressing. Running around in the dark half crazed and running into rocks etc could explain the injuries. A
scavenger could explain the missing tongue. Typical Soviet paranoia could explain the secrecy. Details about radioactivity, burned skin, grey hair,
and orange spheres aren’t necessarily true. They don’t seem to appear in the original inquest. And remember, the scene wasn’t found until weeks
after the deaths, plenty of time for the elements to obscure details and make it look more mysterious than it
was
you may have read this explanation already, and if so sorry. There s a little bit of info out there on this story. But it all seems to be the same.
this one offers something different.
Ivanov speculated that one skier might have left the tent during the night, seen a sphere and woken up the others with his cries. Ivanov said the
sphere might have exploded as they ran toward the forest, killing the four who had serious injuries and cracking Slobodin’s skull.
infodjatlov.narod.ru
Yuri Yudin
Yudin said he also thought an explosion had killed his friends. He said the level of secrecy surrounding the incident suggests that the group might
have inadvertently entered a secret military testing ground. He said the radiation on the clothes supported his theory.
Kuntsevich agreed, saying another clue to the deaths was the fact that the faces of the first five bodies had been inexplicably tan. “I attended the
funerals of the first five victims and remember that their faces look liked they had a deep brown tan,” he said.
interesting story though. We don't see many mysteries coming out of russia.
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